Haven't tried on vb 3.5 but 3.07 it goes to around 1200 (on my site) depending on certain variables it can be more or less. I heard some people got to 1500.

The max number of forums you can have is 65535. Thats because the forumid field type is smallint(5). :)

There is no absolut limit. If you have short forum descriptions, you can have more.

What do forum descriptions have to do with it? :confused:

forumcache gets insanely large and exceeds mySQL max_packet_size.
But other then that it should work

Because the descriptions are in the datastore row for the forumcache. The total number of bytes is limited. So a lot of forums with long titles will quicker be full then with short titles.

Were you aware that you can apply unique styles to individual forums? If a user has a style that they want for their blog, they can have it, giving them their own distinct look.

Ok well, it is not the best idea, I would rather have a blogging system to do what I want. But, he is trying to help the people that need a bloggish type system for 3.5, and cannot find one. (Luckily, amykhar helped me out with this one!).

It is very rude to flame his suggestions when he is just trying to help, good or bad suggestion, you really should say thanks to Fasherman.

In reply to FASherman's first post:
Its just not the same feeling. Plain and simple. :ermm:

I'm just playing devil's advocate to the 4th power.